The History Of The Merchant Taylors' Company

by Davies; Matthew

• ISBN13: 9781902653990
• ISBN10: 1902653998
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-06-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

"One of the ""Great Twelve"" livery companies of the City of London, the Merchant Taylors' Company has been in existence for some seven hundred years. This new history charts the remarkable story of the Company and its members from its origins until the 1950s, encompassing the lives and achievements of men such as Sir Thomas White (founder of St John's College, Oxford) and the celebrated chronicler, John Stow, as well as the roles played by the Company in the City and beyond in different periods. As well as looking in detail at the internal life of the Company, the book also focuses on a number of important themes in the wider history of London. These include trade and industry, apprenticeship, the impact of religious change, the foundation of schools and other charities, and the government and politics of the City. In doing so, the book contributes to an understanding of the aims and activities of the livery companies over the centuries, their ability to adapt to changing circumstances and their relevance in a modern world far removed from that in which they were first established. The History of the Merchant Taylors' Company will appeal to a wide range of people interested in the history of London. It is fully illustrated with more than seventy-five black and white and thirty color illustrations. It is attractively bound in cloth with a full color dust jacket and matching cloth slipcase."

Author Biography

Ann Saunders read history at University College London. She served as Deputy Librarian at Lambeth Palace Library during its restoration from 1956-63 and was elected a Fellow of University College London in 1992.

Table of Contents

Origins : tailors and linen-armourers	p. 3
'Ghostly treasure' : the fraternity of St. John the Baptist 1350-1530	p. 19
The government of the medieval company	p. 35
The company and the craft	p. 49
Company, city and crown 1350-1500	p. 71
The company and the reformation	p. 93
The company and education in the sixteenth century	p. 109
Daily life in Elizabethan London	p. 127
The clothworkers, the city and the crown	p. 141
The turn of the century	p. 151
Prelude to the Civil War	p. 165
The company in the civil war	p. 181
Restoration, fire and rebuilding	p. 199
Troubled times	p. 211
The long eighteenth century	p. 225
The nineteenth century	p. 237
The twentieth century	p. 249
List of masters, 1300-2003	p. 269
List of clerks, 1398-2003	p. 275
The value of money, 1300-2002	p. 277
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